East Norriton Board of Supervisors to hold public hearing on cellphone towers

EAST NORRITON — A public hearing on a proposed update to the zoning ordinance regulating cellular telephone towers will be held by the Board of Supervisors at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, at the township building.

“The ordinance on wireless communications facilities will update our existing ordinance,” said Township Manager Don Delamater. “The current ordinance allows cell towers in the industrial zone and prohibits them in the residential zones.”

Delamater said that advances in antenna technology had required a new ordinance.

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“Non-tower facilities (antennas on the top of buildings and power boosters on utility poles) will be allowed in all zoning districts but they will be regulated,” Delamater said. “Towers will still be prohibited in residential zones.”

At the 7 p.m. Board of Supervisors’ meeting, the 2013 Distinguished Citizen Award will be presented to Don Benn, the chairman of the East Norriton Human Relations Commission and a member of the East Norriton Industrial Development Authority.

Traffic engineer Russ Benner will again discuss the traffic study recommendations to calm traffic on Old Arch Road. Benner made an initial presentation to the board at the December 2013 meeting.